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Title Author Year
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea Cecilia Woloch 2010
Grace for a Child Robert Herrick 1648
Winter Twilight Anne Porter 2006
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
Starlight William Meredith 1997
The Bistro Styx Rita Dove 1995
Ars Poetica (cocoons) Dana Levin 2005
The Fountain of Blood Charles Baudelaire 1994
On Growing Old John Masefield 1919
Gitanjali 35 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
The Aim Was Song Robert Frost 1921
Ghazal of Oranges Jan-Henry Gray 2022
How To Forgive Susan Nguyen 2022
Lion Tina Chang 2022
I Sing What You Loved Gabriela Mistral 2003
Ode to Sudanese-Americans Safia Elhillo 2021
Venus & Serena Play Doubles on Center Court Kate Rushin 2020
Self-Portrait with Eraser Andrea Cohen 2018
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019

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